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3 – 15 March

Music-Hall

Performances

Revived by director Ninon Fachard after the original staging by Véronique Ros de la Grange, this solo piece stars Jacques Michel with Caroline Gasser as the prompter. Lighting by Rinaldo Del Boca and music by Alain Lamarche carve intimate, shadowed spaces around a red sequined curtain. Makeup by Natalia Lepianka and costumes by Emilie Revel shape the fading glamour of a music‑hall star who soliloquises, recalls past glory and loss, and sings in playback—an inward plunge toward memory and survival.

In French.

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3 – 15 March

Groove’N’Move Festival: Morpho — Photographic Portraits

Art & Exhibits

La Comédie de Genève

Morpho is the first photographic exhibition by Lamine Jammeh (Lemz.O) that honors dancers who assert their identities beyond appearance. Through staged portraits and a sensitive visual language, Jammeh explores themes of identity, embodiment and performative selfhood. The series celebrates diversity, courage and the expressive power of movement, presenting intimate, high-contrast images that foreground presence and gesture. Scenography by Lola Delbec and portraits include Sofiane Chalal, Missy NRC, Samantha Panda Laley, Maela Bouguila and Nicolas Meyapan.

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3 – 17 March

L’imposture

Performances

Théâtre Alchimic

Created by Aurélie Hubeau and Lucie Hanoy, L’IMPOSTURE is a comic and poetic exploration of doubt, self-image and belonging. The piece follows a woman who describes herself as too small, obese, ugly and a tomboy, and recounts how she forged an identity in today’s world. Using objects, clothing and puppets manipulated with inventive choreography, the performance weaves humor, poetry and music — from Patrick Bruel to gospel and karaoke — to celebrate difference and question social norms, delivering warmth and poignancy.

In French.

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Thursday 5 March, 18:00

MAMCO Opening: Tribute to Patricia Plattner

Art & Exhibits

Théâtre Saint-Gervais

During the renovation period of the MAMCO Genève building, the circulation of the collection and archival holdings provides an opportunity to initiate a series of off-site projects conceived as spaces of dialogue between Geneva’s cultural institutions.

In this context, the museum is partnering with the Maison Saint-Gervais to present an exhibition dedicated to Patricia Plattner (1953–2016), a Geneva-based artist, filmmaker and screenwriter. In 2025, her family entrusted MAMCO with the archives of her work; the exhibition offers an initial presentation of these materials through a selection of films, documents and archival items.

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4 – 6 March, 19:30

Bach and the Bible

Performances

La Cité Bleue

At La Cité Bleue, Bach and the Bible is a powerful and intimate performance by director Omar Porras and pianist Cédric Pescia. The show weaves together sacred biblical texts and Bach’s keyboard music, exploring the deep spiritual dialogue between word and sound. Porras voices the Gospels, Psalms, and prophecies, while Pescia delivers a luminous, heartfelt interpretation of Bach’s meditations.

Neither a recital nor a theatrical reading, the performance invites audiences—believers or not—to rediscover the universal spiritual depth of Bach’s music rooted in the Bible, creating a moving journey of meaning, beauty, and silence.

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Thursday 5 March, 19:30

Interstice#4 — Zone Grise

Performances

Salle du Lignon

Presented by the Geneva company Alavan, Interstice#4 — Zone Grise follows four former friends who reunite ten years after attending the same pre-professional theatre class. Combining improvisation and devised stage writing developed during a residency week, the piece explores lingering complicity, unresolved resentments and the subtle shifts time imposes on identity and relations. Intimate and tactile, the staging invites a close exchange between artists and audience, tracing memory, silence and the fragile work of reconnecting.

In French.

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Events running for an extended period

5 March – 4 April

Clara Roumégoux: Day to Day

Art & Exhibits

Palais de l'Athénée

Clara Roumégoux examines production relations and the pressure to be productive through a concise series of works. Addressing food, design and sleep, she subverts everyday objects so they become signifiers of our era. Through moving image, print, installation and playful references to painting, her practice blurs domesticity and industry, care and efficiency. The exhibition questions habitual assumptions and evokes the subtle social forces that shape everyday routines and bodily rhythms.

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17 March 2025 – 1 September 2026

Janus at the Bioparc

Kids

Bioparc

The Biopark is temporarily hosting Janus, a unique two-headed Greek tortoise, during the renovation of the Museum. Each head of this male tortoise has its own independent brain, which sometimes makes its movements challenging. In captivity, Janus receives attentive care, resulting in an impressive lifespan of 26 years.

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17 February – 8 March

Winter Show

Art & Exhibits

Hindergässli (Saanen, BE)

FURTHER AFIELD

Winter show features a selection of works that explore the idea of materiality through sculptures, paintings, and works on paper. The exhibition brings together works by Maria Bartuszová, Tony Cragg, Steven Parrino, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha and Robert Ryman.

Bringing together international artists across generations, the exhibition examines how material informs form and presence, making it a vital expressive force in both three- and two-dimensional works.

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10 December 2025 – 19 April 2026

Elles. Contemporary Indigenous Artists

Art & Exhibits

Musée Rath

ELLES brings together powerful contemporary Aboriginal women artists whose work bridges ancestral storytelling and modern abstraction. Featuring major figures such as Emily Kam Kngwarray and Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, alongside artists from the Bérengère Primat Collection / Fondation Opale, the exhibition at the Musée Rath highlights symbolic, vibrant works rooted in land, memory, and spirituality. Between tradition and contemporary expression, these intimate visual cartographies celebrate the deep connection between culture, nature, and creation.

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9 October 2025 – 30 August 2026

Angélica Serech Pach’un Q’ijul (Temps entrelacés – Deep Time)

Art & Exhibits

Red Cross Museum

The International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent presents the first European solo exhibition of Guatemalan Maya Kaqchikel artist Angélica Serech (*1982). Pach’un Q’ijul (Temps entrelacés – Deep Time) intertwines ancestral weaving gestures with personal and collective memory, drawing on Serech’s history shaped by Guatemala’s civil war. Using self-built looms and natural materials like corn husks and branches, her works explore resilience, repair, and the deep ties between textile traditions and humanitarian action.

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3 March – 2 April

Le Tartuffe

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

Molière’s Tartuffe tells the story of a slick con-man who hides behind ostentatious piety to worm his way into the wealthy Orgon household. Orgon, dazzled by Tartuffe’s sanctimonious rhetoric, defends him even as the impostor’s hypocrisy poisons family bonds and pushes the household toward ruin.

Director Jean Liermier underscores how, in Molière’s work, the female characters serve as the moral compass and spark of resistance, a beacon of hope against oppression. Staged on a stark, minimalist set that exposes the family’s rigid tensions—and featuring Gilles Privat as an unbending Orgon—this production highlights the play’s continuing resonance in a world beset by egotism, fanaticism, and conspiracy thinking. The central question remains timeless: will society keep falling for Tartuffe’s brand of seductive deceit?

In French. Ages 12 and up.

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Geneva Classics

Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.

MEG (Musée d’ethnographie de Genève)

The MEG is a renowned museum dedicated to the exploration and presentation of cultural diversity from around the world. Located in the heart of Geneva, it houses an extensive collection of over 80,000 objects, including artifacts, textiles, and artworks that highlight the rich traditions and histories of various communities. The museum emphasizes interactive and immersive exhibitions, engaging visitors with contemporary issues related to culture and identity.

Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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MAMCO (Museum of Contemporary Art)

– CLOSED FOR RENOVATION –

Since its opening in 1994, the MAMCO Geneva (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain) has staged 450 exhibitions with works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Mamco’s holdings include works by Christo, Martin Kippenberger, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Sarkis, Franz Erhard Walther and Sylvie Fleury, among many others.

Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year. During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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Ariana Museum

With a collection of 27,000 items from Switzerland, Europe and the Middle and Far East, and a witness to twelve centuries of ceramic art from the Middle Ages to modern times, the Ariana is one of Europe’s great museums specializing in glass and ceramics.

Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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Music-Hall

Groove’N’Move Festival: Morpho — Photographic Portraits

L’imposture

MAMCO Opening: Tribute to Patricia Plattner

Bach and the Bible

Interstice#4 — Zone Grise

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Clara Roumégoux: Day to Day

Janus at the Bioparc

Winter Show

Elles. Contemporary Indigenous Artists

Angélica Serech Pach’un Q’ijul (Temps entrelacés – Deep Time)

Le Tartuffe

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MEG (Musée d’ethnographie de Genève)

MAMCO (Museum of Contemporary Art)

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Ariana Museum

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